Former union chief, Phey Yew Kok
Young Phey (right) In October 2018, former union chief, Phey Yew Kok completed his 5 year jail term and became a free man in Singapore. It was in December 1979 that Phey Yew Kok, as President of NTUC was charged for criminal breach of trust of union funds. He had stolen more than $200,000. Phey jumped bail and stayed in anonymity...
32,000 workers take home less than $1300 each month
I will be blunt with my comments. Koh Poh Koon disclosed in Parliament that about 32,000 workers take home less than $1300 each month, a minimum wage (MW) sum lower than what was proposed by WP's Pritam Singh. So, what does that tell us? It told me a few things. One, setting our proposed MW at $1300 is too conservative. Singapore...
Doing her job
Photo: theweek.in New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Ms. Jacinda Ardern has just won a landslide in New Zealand’s latest election. Ms. Ardern won some 49.1 percent of the votes cast and has 64 seats in the 120-seat parliament. It is, as the BBC reported, one of the rare occasions when a New Zealand Government has an outright...
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